Description:
This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts.
Brief description: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton is The Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author most recently of Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England, which won the Haskins Medal from the Medieval Academy of America. She is coeditor with Maidie Hilmo of The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower and The Medieval Reader: Reception and Cultural History in the Late Medieval Manuscript and coeditor with Linda Olson of Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages.
Review Quotes:
Few universities in the US and the UK are able to offer their graduate students with properly supervised access to medieval manuscripts, despite the demand for such training. This superb volume fills a much-needed gap...The authors offer not just a masterly synthesis of the most recent (and even forthcoming) scholarship; they also break new ground.
--Ruth Evans "Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research"